Creativity > Productivity

Hello, and happy Sunday! Sometimes the work we publish comes together in hours or days; at others, it takes weeks or months. This week we published a piece by Sari Azout that fell in the latter category. She shared the details of the eight-month-long process behind the finished piece in her newsletter. Read on for more on that, everything else we published this week, and our take on the latest tech and business news.—Kate Lee

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Knowledge base

"The End of Productivity" by Sari Azout/Thesis: As AI takes over grunt work, success belongs to those making weird, wonderful, and authentic things. Sari Azout, founder of knowledge management tool Sublime, argues we need to ditch our obsession with doing more, faster, and embrace tools that foster deep thinking and intentional creation. Read this for a compelling vision of how to design technology that enhances our creativity, not just our output. 🔏 Paid subscribers get access to a workshop hosted by Sari on building your knowledge library for creative work.

“The Once and Future History of Knowledge Work” by Katie Parrott/Working Overtime: Ever since its emergence during  the Industrial Revolution, knowledge work has evolved with technology, and it’s no different with AI. In Katie Parrott's’s debut for her new column about work and technology, she questions whether this disruption might actually help correct decades of wage inequality and restore middle-class jobs. Read this for a unique perspective on whether AI will substitute or complement knowledge work.